March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 36m
English
book
Epic Content Marketing, Second Edition: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Content, and Build a Community in Web3, 2nd Edition
by Joe Pulizzi, Brian W. Piper
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CHAPTER 8
The Audience Persona
BY JOE PULIZZI
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience.
ARMANDO IANNUCCI
Repeat this sentence: “I am not the target for my content.” This thought is critical as you read this chapter. Business owners and marketers tend to bend their content to their thinking. Don’t fall into this trap.
If you are thinking and acting like a media company and publisher, everything you do with your content marketing will begin and end with your audience. If you do not understand the wants and needs of your audience, there is no way you can be successful with your content.
Most of the time, marketers think that their content audiences are the same as their buying audiences. For example, John Deere distributes The Furrow ...